What is lunacy? How does the label lunatic gets weaponized and mis-used? Learning from postcolonial psychology & activist traditions, let’s talk about it.
Lunacy is one of the most potent counters to the limitations of respectability politics that’s available to us. Respectability politics pressures us to ceaselessly pander to oppressive audiences. Oppression sets the terms of the debate. You show up & are pressured to conform to the language of oppression, dress the way the status quo told you to, leave your family’s religion and values at the door, & more generally aspire to be as basic as possible to fit in with the baseline of unjust mediocrity around you.
Lunacy, on the other hand, offers a way out of that hamster wheel of death. We know that the most substantial critiques regularly get de-legitimated as allegedly ‘crazy.’ This political dimension is at the core of how sanism operates. And if millions of people continue hedging around the standards set by an omnicidal death cult…well, we’re done for. Give thanks that we can resist, though. Reconnecting with what we know that we may have suppressed in a violently ignorant culture.
If you’ve ever censored yourself because you were concerned that you might be labeled crazy, this seed is for you. Or if you see people unyieldingly calling corrupt politicians ‘lunatics’ and sense that there’s a lot to unpack there, please listen!
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